Meat Department Associate

Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service. Establish and maintain a safe and clean

environment that encourages our customers to return. Assist the department manager in reaching sales and profit

goals established for the department, and monitor all established quality assurance standards. Embrace the Customer

1st strategy and encourage associates to deliver excellent customer service. Demonstrate the company’s core values

of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety of others.

Essential Job Functions:

• Promote trust and respect among associates.

• Create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important and appreciated by answering

questions regarding products sold within the department and throughout the store.

• Gain and maintain knowledge of products sold within the department and be able to respond to questions and

make suggestions about products.

• Cut meats to customer’s requests using proper cutting equipment.

• Offer product samples to help customers discover new items or products they inquire about.

• Inform customers of meat specials.

• Provide customers with fresh/frozen products that they have ordered and the correct portion size (or as close as

possible to the amount ordered) to prevent shrink.

• Recommend meat items to customers to ensure they get the products they want and need.

• Use all equipment in meat department such as the refrigerators, freezers, slicers, and ovens according to

company guidelines.

• Prepare food to company standards.

• Adequately prepare, package, label and inventory ingredients in merchandise.

• Check product quality to ensure freshness. Review “sell by” dates and take appropriate action.